TWIGGING Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

twigging

verb

present participle of twig

as in knowing

to have a clear idea of it took me a while to twig the true nature of the relationship between the two women

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But knowing how these shows work, Aaron will probably go home and Bryan and Bi will make it to the final to continue their rivalry there.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 July 2026
Not knowing the answer, the contestants used their lifeline to ask host Jimmy Kimmel.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 30 July 2026

Definition of knowing

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Western San Gabriel Mountains/Highway 14 Corridor When an air quality alert pops up on the radar, deciphering its implications is crucial.

— Southern California Weather Report, Daily News, 30 July 2026
Jonestown afflicted Naipaul’s vision, his way of deciphering not just political manias but the dreariness of urban life, the perpetual doom of the nuclear-arms race.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026

Definition of deciphering

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That there was grasping profit-seeking by private-sector grocery stores.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
By combining grasping and touch sensing into a single soft device, future robots could be trained to perform much more complex and demanding tasks than simply washing the dishes.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 20 July 2026

Definition of grasping

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And the actor believes there is a power in seeing only the before and aftermath of the killing.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
There was the guy Daemon stabbed through the ear, and then the smelly killers Gwayne sniffed out, and now Ser Adrian, who took a knife to the throat within seconds of seeing Aemond.

— Brian Grubb, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of seeing

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Hard sci-fi, meanwhile, leans into the fact that life evolving on other planets, under different conditions, and across different stretches of time will almost certainly take on forms so different from ours that comprehending them would be like imagining a new color.

— Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 24 Mar. 2026
As for whether comprehending the wiring of the brain really demands techniques from the frontiers of theoretical physics, questions remain.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026

Definition of comprehending

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